Raising chickens in your backyard has become a trend not just for aspiring farmers, but for anyone wanting to be even a ...

Do you enjoy watching wild birds in your yard? Most Arkansans do, and now is a perfect time to enhance those opportunities by building and installing nest boxes around your property. Many birds in The ...

Who wants to see an owl? Who wants to hear an owl? Who wants to build homes for an owl? Who? Who? Who? One of the best ways to do that is to build an owl nesting box, and it's easier than you might ...

There they were, bluebird houses on top of many of the fence posts that lined the road just west of Bickleton, the self-proclaimed Bluebird Capital of the World. It’s spring, and thousands of ...

Birds primarily use nesting boxes to raise their young in spring and summer, but a simple change can turn the abandoned shelter into a warm winter roost.

Read this before you start building a nest box for your local birds. Seeing a plywood nest box tucked amongst the branches of a tree or hoisted around its trunk is a familiar sight to many Australians ...

A male eastern bluebird darts from its perch to the ground to capture an insect. When the light is angled just right, the feathers on the bird's back and tail flash a brilliant blue — so blue, in fact ...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Howard Nursery wants to help outdoor enthusiasts spring into the season and connect with wildlife in their backyard. Bluebird nesting boxes built by the ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - If you see a bluebird, there’s a chance it was born in a Toledo Metropark. The Toledo Metroparks have had their cavity-nesting bird monitoring program since 1988, where ...

Old Man Winter has finally relaxed his grip on a landscape that's been frozen for, well, a long time. If that isn't enough good news, consider this: Tomorrow we will receive about four more minutes of ...

Some species, such as the marsh tit, preferred tree cavities as nesting sites Conservationists cannot consider nest-boxes to be a substitute for naturally occurring tree cavities, a study has ...